US5630201A - Development apparatus having a plurality of rolls rotated at particular speeds - Google Patents

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US5630201A
US5630201A US08/607,094 US60709496A US5630201A US 5630201 A US5630201 A US 5630201A US 60709496 A US60709496 A US 60709496A US 5630201 A US5630201 A US 5630201A
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  • the present invention relates generally to development machines for use in electronic image-forming or photographing systems.
  • a conventional development machine or apparatus has been described, for example, in Japanese Patent Publication Number 62-2313, wherein two development rolls are disposed in such a manner that they may rotate in the same direction as the moving direction of a photosensitive body.
  • two poles of the same polarity are disposed at the development pole of either one of such development rolls.
  • the apparatus is arranged such that the rotation speed of a first development roll provided in the upstream is greater than the moving speed of the photosensitive body, while that of a second development roll is less than the same.
  • Drum lock may possible take place by a developer due to the fact that the moving speed of such development rolls moving in the same direction is greater on the upstream side and yet less on the downstream side.
  • the image density may decrease as the printing speed increases.
  • the development roll(s) and/or the rotation shaft of a carrier roll may be abraded or locked mechanically.
  • the foregoing object may be accomplished by providing a development apparatus for effecting the magnetic brush phenomenon by supplying a developer to an opposed photoconductive body with photoconductivity by use of a plurality of nearby development rolls with magnetically attractive forces disposed in the vicinity of the photosensitive body, wherein the device includes (i) a first development roll having a unipole development magnet at a development pole contributing to development, and being movable in a direction opposite to the moving direction of the photosensitive body, and (ii) a group of second development rolls including one or more development rolls having a plurality of magnetically attractive nearby forces and causing a plurality of magnets of the same polarity at a development pole contributing to development, featured in that the first development roll is disposed in the upstream of the moving direction of the photosensitive body, that the second development rolls are disposed in the downstream of the moving direction of the photosensitive body, and that the first development roll and the photosensitive body are arranged to define a specific peripheral speed ratio which ranges from 0.5 to 1.5, while allowing the second development rolls and the
  • the cleaning ability on the photosensitive body may be maintained by the first development roll being rotatable in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the photoconductive body. Further, due to the fact that the developer can be fed smoothly to the photoconductive body by use of the magnets of the same polarity provided at the development poles of the group of second development rolls causing the toner supply amount to increase, the load to the photoconductive body can be decreased to thereby enable, even in case of high speed printing, the resultant image to be kept higher in density and enhanced in quality to thereby offer stable image quality for an increased length of time.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a development apparatus in accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a cross mixer.
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a group of second development rolls.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram depicting the relation between a peripheral speed ratio of a development roll and contamination occurred in the background of papers used.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram of a magnetic-pole angle.
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram indicating the relation between the magnetic-pole angle and contamination of the background of papers used.
  • FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the relation of magnetic force versus each magnetic pole of the second development roll.
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the relation of image density versus drop-down magnetic force between poles of the same polarity.
  • FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a development-roll shaft bearing section.
  • FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the relation between the rotation number of a development roll and fault occurrence number.
  • FIG. 1 a development machine in accordance with one preferred embodiment of the instant invention is illustrated in cross-section.
  • FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a cross mixer used
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the major part of a group of development rolls, which will be referred to as the "second development rolls" later in the description.
  • the development machine includes a drum-shaped photosensitive body 1 with certain photoconductivity, which is rotatable at a selected peripheral speed that may range from 600 to 1800 mm/s.
  • the photosensitive body 1 has a photosensitive layer of a thickness of 50 to 80 ⁇ m, which may be made from a chosen photosensing material such as SeTe, SeTeAs, As 2 Se 3 or the like.
  • the photosensitive body 1 measures 200 to 300 mm in diameter.
  • a group of development rolls i.e., two development rolls 8 and 9 are disposed in the downstream relative to the moving direction of the photoconductive body 1 in such a manner that they oppose the photoconductive body 1 with a gap defined between this body 1 and themselves falling within a range from 0.6 to 2.0 mm, preferably 0.8 to 1.5 mm, and are rotatable in the same direction as the photoconductive body 1.
  • These development rolls have a plurality of magnetic rolls 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b that are same in polarity as the development pole.
  • Another development roll 5 is disposed in the upstream of the development roll group 8, 9 such that the roll 5 is rotatable in the opposite direction to the photoconductive body 1. Note that in the description, this roll 5 will be referred to as the first development roll, whereas the two rolls 8, 9 as the second ones.
  • a development material or developer 3 which is comprised of a carrier and toner in the bottom of a development vessel 2, is conveyed over the surface of a developer-carrying member 4 rotatably disposed at the bottom of such vessel due to the magnetically attractive force caused by such member 4, and is then transferred onto the surface of one of the second development roll group which is near the developer-carrying member 4, here the second development roll 9.
  • the developer-carrying member 4 may be a magnetic roll that diametrically measures 50 to 120 mm.
  • the developer transferred is adhered on the surface of member 4 due to the presence of magnetically attractive force of the second development roll 9; then, the developer 3 is forced by rotation of a sleeve 13 to move toward the upstream, in the opposite side of a certain side facing the photoconductive body of the second development roll 9, to be transferred to the other of the second development roll group, i.e., the second development roll 8.
  • the developer 3 now transferred is adhered onto the surface of the second development roll 8 due to its magnetically attractive force; the developer 3 transferred by the rotation of the sleeve 12 is controlled by a developer control member 16 so that it remains constant in amount. Thereafter, a developer 3a is carried between the photoconductive body 1 and the second development roll group 8, 9 to become contact with the photoconductive body 1 causing development to be effected.
  • a developer 3c that is out of the control of the developer control member 16 is conveyed on the rear surface of the member 16 toward the upstream and is then adhered to the surface due to the magnetically attractive force caused by the first development roll 5 which is rotating in the reverse direction to the photoconductive body 1.
  • a developer 3b that is conveyed by rotation of the sleeve 7 between the first development roll 5 and the developer control member 1 is controlled again by the developer control member 16 so that its amount remains constant. Thereafter, this developer is conveyed between the photoconductive body 1 and the first development roll 5 to be contacted with the photoconductive body 1 thus completing development.
  • the developer 3c escaped from the control of the developer control member 16 drops down at a first stage 15a of a cross mixer 15, which is disposed beneath the developer control member 16 for causing developer to move and flow into the right and left directions; a part of the developer 3c is further dropped onto a second stage 15b as will be described with reference to FIG. 3.
  • Such diversion to the right and left directions at the first and second stages 15a, 15b allows the developer components to be stirred and mixed together and then returned to the bottom section of the developer-carrying member 4.
  • this cross-mixer is adapted to attain stirring and mixing of developers while forcing a part of developer to divert into the right and left flow paths in parallel with the shaft of development roll, thus causing the toner density to remain uniform in the developer; the three-stage structure may provide preferable results.
  • the first stage 15a is provided with drop holes 15d for subdividing the flow of dropping developer 3c into almost two components to assure that the resulting developer components flow into the first and second stages.
  • the first stage 15a has several slanted fins 15e that enables the movement to the left direction
  • the second stage 15b has fins 15f for enabling the movement to the right. In this way, it becomes possible, by use of such developer-flow diversion structure for diverting the dropping developer into the right and left directions, to maintain the toner density of developer uniform between the right and left directions.
  • the third stage 15c (the lowest section) is structurally arranged such that the developer 3d and extra toner being supplied are mixed together to go downward, while they are prevented from diverting into the right and left directions, to reach the developer-carrying member 4 where they are mixed and carried forward.
  • the average grain diameter of toner used for the developer 3 may fall within a range of 6 to 12 ⁇ m, preferably, 7 to 9 ⁇ m. Such decrease in the average toner grain diameter, i.e., miniaturization of toner, can contribute to the achievement of enhanced quality and higher definition for images developed.
  • Carriers may be magnetite carriers or ferrite ones, which are of spherical shape with the average grain diameter of 80 to 130 ⁇ m, coated with a chosen resin such as styrene, acrylic resin, silicon or the like, and exhibit saturation magnetization of 50 to 80 emJ/g at 1 kOe.
  • the dynamic electrical resistivity of the developer By determining the dynamic electrical resistivity of the developer to range from 10 8 to 10 11 ⁇ cm, preferably 10 9 to 10 10 ⁇ cm, it has been demonstrated that stable charging performance can be maintained even at higher speed of development, thus enabling higher image quality to be accomplished.
  • the use of magnetite carriers of the average grain diameter of 90 to 120 ⁇ m can offer several advantageous features in that excellent fluidity, less possibility of carrier attachment to the photoconductive body, and long life time, which features may be suitable for high-speed development. Under such a condition, the life time of such developer was as long as 200 to 1,000 kilopages/kg; in contrast, the life time of a developer employing iron-power carriers was half the former, or less.
  • the average grain diameter of less than 80 ⁇ m the attachment of carriers to the drum becomes severe; in the case of more than 130 ⁇ m, the resulting image became coarser undesirably.
  • the charge amount of toner may be 15 to 35 ⁇ C/g, preferably, 20 to 30 ⁇ C/g; at the average grain diameter of 7 to 9 ⁇ m, the charge amount is 20 to 50 ⁇ C/g, preferably 25 to 40 ⁇ C/g.
  • the toner density when the surface coverage ratio for the toner carriers is 0.3 to 0.6, the toner density can be improved to the extent that the image density remains higher while the external dispersion of toner around the area of a copying machine can be eliminated.
  • the surface coverage ratio when the surface coverage ratio is less than 0.3, any required images of acceptable quality cannot be obtained; at the ratio of 0.6 or more, the dispersion of toner and the blooming tend to take place more frequently.
  • V B1 is the bias voltage applied to the first development roll 5
  • V B2 is the bias voltage to the second development roll group 8, 9
  • the photoconductive body 1 can be compensated for any decrease in surface voltage with time due to dark attenuation to provide desired images free from the occurrence of contamination in the background of papers used.
  • the rotation direction of the first development roll 5 be opposite in direction to the photoconductive body 1. This can be said because the rotation of the first development roll 5 is preferably opposite in direction to the movement of the photoconductive body in order to increase the cleaning ability and the toner attachment/adhesion amount on the photoconductive body. Further, since it is desirable that this action is performed at the beginning of development operations, the first development roll 5 is recommendably provided in the upstream along the moving direction of such photoconductive body as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the rotation of first development roll is same in direction as the photoconductive body; for this reason, the rotation of the second development roll group is same in direction as the motion or rotation of the photoconductive body as shown in FIG. 1, and simultaneously is disposed in the downstream along the moving direction of such photoconductive body, whereby higher cleaning ability and enhanced development performance can become available so that images of high quality can be obtained at increased reliability.
  • the load to the developer and the photoconductive body may increase causing the life time of each to decrease and/or causing the bearings for the development rolls and development-carrying roll to decrease in life time due to acceleration of mechanical abrasion.
  • the toner dispersion becomes much severe.
  • the first development roll is constituted by a unipole to thereby maintain proper cleaning ability; in addition to this, the development pole contributing to the development at the second development roll group is provided with two or more magnetic poles of the same polarity.
  • These same-polarity magnetic poles may be obtained by use of one of the following techniques: (i) forming a groove of rectangular profile, for example, in the center of such magnetic poles, (ii) embedding powerful magnets such as rare-earth magnets as shown in FIG. 3, or (iii) providing an independent block magnet.
  • the development rolls can be decreased in number of revolution with the result of the load to the photoconductive body, developer and bearings being decreased.
  • the results are as follows: uniform high-density images could be obtained at the rotation speed of the second development roll group which is 0.6 to 1.5 times the rotation speed of photoconductive body; undesirable toner dispersion could be suppressed or eliminated successfully.
  • excellent results could be demonstrated when the ratio of rotation speed (the peripheral velocity ratio) ranges from 1.05 to 1.5. At the peripheral velocity ratio of 0.95 to 1.05, color irregularity was occurred a little.
  • the rotation speed of the first development roll is 0.5 to 1.5 times the rotation speed of the photoconductive body. While similar effects was obtained when the rotation speed of the first development roll remains lowered to be of 0.5 to 1.0 time the photoconductive-body rotation speed, it is recommendable that the first and second rolls be either rendered uniform in motion or arranged such that the first roll is slower than the second rolls when the development-roll drive mechanism is actually build up.
  • FIG. 4 summarizes experimental data in terms of the occurrence of contamination in the background of papers used in such experiments. Comparing based on the experimental results (i) one case where a unipole was adapted for respective development poles of the second development roll group with (ii) another case where the magnets of the same polarity of the present invention was employed reveals the fact that follows: the occurrence of the paper-background contamination when the same-polarity magnets of the inventions are employed remains less than that in the other case as a whole; this effect becomes more significant when the peripheral velocity ratio is relatively low between the second development roll group and the photoconductive body.
  • this angle ⁇ is defined between (i) one center line ⁇ 2 between the same-polarity magnetic poles (S, S) of the development poles of respective development rolls 8, 9 of the second development roll group and (ii) the other center line O 1 connecting the center O 2 of the photoconductive body and the center O 2 of respective development rolls 8, 9 of the second development roll group in such a way that this angle ⁇ is about 5 degrees in the clockwise direction relative to the second development roll group.
  • the development roll diameter is 40 to 70 mm, and the same-polarity magnet angle is at 15 to 30 degrees.
  • setting of the range to fall within a range of 0 to 7.5 degrees offered good results.
  • an odd number of magnets of the same polarity may be used also; if this is the case, images of improved quality could be provided by setting the magnet angle of the center magnetic-pole between the magnets of the same polarity to fall within a range of 2.5 to 7.5 degrees in the clockwise direction relative to the second development roll group.
  • FIG. 7 shows one available magnetic force curve of the magnets of the same polarity employed for the development poles of the second development roll group.
  • the magnetic force drops down in a region between the peak values of respective magnets. It has been actually corroborated that the amount of such drop-down magnetic force ( ⁇ G) significantly influences the erected state of a developer on the development rolls. As the drop-down amount ( ⁇ G) increases, the repulsive magnetic force increases accordingly, causing dispersion of developer onto the photoconductive-body surface to become more severe so that the effect of development can be enhanced.
  • FIG. 8 shows the results of investigation regarding the relation of the drop-down amount ( ⁇ G) between the same-polarity magnetic poles versus the resultant image density. It can be seen from viewing FIG. 8 that high image density can be attained when the drop-down amount ( ⁇ G) falls within a range of 250 to 600 gausses ( ⁇ G). As a consequence, excellent image quality can be achieved by arranging the drop-down amount ( ⁇ G) between the same-polarity magnetic poles of the development poles of the second development roll group 8, 9 so as to range from 250 to 600 Gausses, preferably 300 to 600 Gausses.
  • the peak value of the magnetic force of the same-polarity magnets be equivalent to or greater than 700 Gausses, preferably in the range from 900 to 1,300 Gausses, for maintaining the required development contact width to suppress the occurrence of adhesion of carriers onto the drum surface.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a cross-section of one part of the embodiment wherein several development rolls, a development-carrying roll and a bearing are assembled together.
  • the bearing designated by the numeral 21 is embedded in a development envelop wall 2 and in the surface of one side of a rotatable support member of the sleeve 7, for rotatably supporting the the first development roll 5, the second development roll group 8, 9 and the developer-carrying roll 4.
  • the developer 3 containing toner and carriers
  • the occurrence of breaking failures is intended to mean that the actual number of rotational malfunction (starter torque increase, locking, etc) investigated through one year under an ordinary condition of usage. From viewing FIG. 10, it may be understood that, when rotation number of development is greater than 600 rpm or more, the resulting bearing life-time was extremely lowered.
  • the photoconductive body measures about 1,800 mm/s in rotation velocity, if the diameter of each roll of the second development roll group 8, 9 is 80 to 90 mm, then desired images of high density and of uniform quality can be obtained even under such a condition that the number of revolutions of each roll of the second development roll group 8, 9 is 600 rpm. Further, the bearings used for respective development rolls can also be enhanced in life time, whereby the reliability can thus be much improved.
  • the diameter is 50 to 90 mm for the development rolls, and 50 to 120 mm for the development carrying roll.
  • the present invention can provide a specific development apparatus which can reduce the load to the photoconductive body and the developer, and yet can offer images of high quality at higher reliability even when the printing is at high speed.

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